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DIED. MARTHA GELLHORN, 89, war correspondent, novelist and, only incidentally, Ernest Hemingway's third wife; in London. Gellhorn's dispatches, first filed during the Spanish Civil War and continuing through World War II and Vietnam, focused on the ordinary and powerless. An avid traveler and prolific journalist, she also wrote novels and short stories. Gellhorn married Hemingway in 1940. She left him five years later, the only one of his four wives to do so. He reportedly remained bitter for the rest of his life, and she remained irritated for being best known as his former wife...
...regard Lois as a pioneering role model, the only go- getting female reporter. (Older observers can recall that Brenda Starr has been tearing through the comic pages since 1940, and that real-life role models of the period included such famous bylines as Anne O'Hare McCormick, Martha Gellhorn, Dorothy Thompson, Genet, Marguerite Higgins and Dorothy Kilgallen.) As a chauvinist creation, Lois not only bungled most of her assignments and repeatedly double-crossed the faithful Clark, but also subordinated all professional demands to her one romantic obsession. After she parachutes into a flood, she tells her rescuer, "I'd like...
...visitor rather than a permanent member of the faculty. I suggest that the University should recognize that the School of Public Health, its academic leadership, its faculty, and its students are wonderful and exciting assets which should be treasured rather than tarnished. Alfred Gellhorn, M.D. Visiting Professor Chairman, Committee on Community Health
...pollutant-health link exists, the study will provide data necessary to the planning of effective interventions. In addition, the survey serves as a model of how a community and an academic institution should work together on a health problem, Gellhorn said...
...designed by the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics at the SPH in conjunction with FACE. The 15-minute telephone survey, the product of eight months of collaboration, is designed to yield a health map of the community that correlates patterns of illness with specific geographic locations, Dr. Alfred Gellhorn, visiting professor of Health Policy and Management said yesterday...